Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

June 2018. “(Some) Attitudes that Matter,” Conference: The Future of Normativity, The Centre for Practical Normativity, The University of Kent, Kent, England (sponsored by The Analysis Trust, The Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association)

Sept. 2015 . “Commitments and Practical Reason,” Workshop on Practical Reason: Constraints and Vulnerability, European Network for Practical Reason & Normative Psychology, Center for the Student of Mind in Nature (CSMN) and Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

August 2015. “Agency, Personhood and the Metaethical Grounds of Moral Status” for 9th Annual European Consortium on Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Section: Rights- Kantian Approaches, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Sept. 2014 .“Constitutivism and the Self-Reflection Requirement”, on the panel “Constitutivist Accounts of Agency: A New Foundation for Morality?”, 8th Annual European Consortium on Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, University of Glasgow

Aug. 2018. “TBA,” Workshop: Constitutive Norms and Temporal Agency, European Network for Practical Reason & Normative Psychology, Center for the Student of Mind in Nature (CSMN) and Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

April 2018. [As second author] “How the Chimpanzee (and Raven) Got a Theory of Mind Without Even Trying”(with Daniel J. Povinelli), Joint Keynote Address, Conference: New Directions in Social Cognition Research, Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience Departments, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (*Keynote not presented due to illness of first author)

June 2017. “Animal Agency as a Solution to the Problem of Animal Rationality” (with Daniel J. Povinelli), Animal Rationality Workshop, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (co-organized by faculty from Ben-Gurion University and the Interdisciplinary Center), Jerusalem, Israel

May 2017. “Why (Some) Beliefs Motivate,” Keynote Address, Conference on Evil and the Guise of the Good, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

April 2017. “Others’ Expectations, Self-Constitution and Practical Reason,” Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL

June 2016. “Moral Status and Moral Realism,” Normative Disagreement Workshop, The University of Oslo, Center for the Student of Mind in Nature (CSMN) and Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

April 2016. “Agency and the Metaethical Foundations of Moral Status,” Keynote Address, Minorities and Philosophy Graduate and Undergraduate Conference, Department of Philosophy, The University of Kansas

April 2015. Comments on “On the Very Possibility of a Searlian Collective Intention” by Abigail Klassen, American Philosophical Association (APA), Pacific Division, Main Program, Colloquium Session, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Nov. 2014. “Agency: Theoretical, Moral and Empirical Dimensions,” Arts and Humanities Colloquium for Provost’s Arts and Humanities Career Enhancement Awards Recipients, The University of Texas at El Paso

Oct. 2014. “The Metaethical Problem of Suffering,” The Center for Values and Social Policy, The Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado-Boulder

Nov. 2013. “Shared Intention and Reasons for Actions,” The Department of Philosophy, New Mexico State University

Commentaries Presented (Invited)

March 2018. Comments on “Control Theory and the Concept of a Goal” by Isaac Wiegman, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX

Aug. 2015. Comments on “Collective Responsibility in a Mexican Standoff’ by Sarah Rachel Chant at the Annual Rocky Mt. Ethics Congress (RoME), The University of Colorado-Boulder

Aug. 2014. Comments on Eden Lin’s “Humeanism and Desire Satisfaction” at the Rocky Mt. Ethics Congress (RoME), The University of Colorado-Boulder

May 2014. Comments on Alex Worsnip’s “The Irrelevance of Evidence (to Rationality)” at the St. Louis Conference on Reason and Rationality, St Louis, MO (sponsored by Washington University-St Louis and University of Missouri-St Louis)

April 2014. Comments on Jean-Paul Vessel’s “Moore’s Open Question Phenomenon Explained—Naturalistically” at the New Mexico Texas Society’s Annual Conference, UTEP

May 2016. “Endorsements and Practical Reason,” PPPE Seminar, Center for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) and Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, The University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

May 2016. “What Commitments Are Not (And Some Thoughts On What They May Be),” Works in Progress Seminar, Center for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) and Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, The University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

April 2013.“Shared Intention and Reasons for Action,” Faculty Colloquium, The Department of Philosophy, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX

Oct. 2011. “Can We Choose Not To Be Agents? Should We?,” Faculty Colloquium, The Department of Philosophy, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX